The Fountain of Life Opened

Fifthly, As it was against their solemn promise to Christ, so it was against Christs heart melting expostulations with them; which should have abode upon their hearts while they lived. For when others that followed him, went back, and walked no more with him, Jesus said to these very men that now forsook him at last, Will ye also go away? There is an Emphasis in [Ye] q. d. What ⟨p. 374⟩ye that from eternity were given to me. Ye whom I have called, loved and honoured above others, for whose sakes I am ready and resolved to die. Will ye also forsake me? Joh. 6.67. What ever others do, I expect other things from you.

Fifthly, As it was against their solemn promise to Christ, so it was against Christs heart melting expostulations with them; which should have abode upon their hearts while they lived. For when others that followed him, went back, and walked no more with him, Jesus said to these very men that now forsook him at last, Will ye also go away? There is an Emphasis in [Ye] q. d. What ⟨p. 374⟩ye that from eternity were given to me. Ye whom I have called, loved and honoured above others, for whose sakes I am ready and resolved to die. Will ye also forsake me? Ioh. 6.67. What ever others do, I expect other things from you.

Sixthly, As it was against Christs heart melting expostulations with them, so it was against a late direful example presented to them in the fall of Judas. In him as in a Glass they might see how fearful a thing it is to apostatize from Christ. They had heard Christs dreadful threats against him. They were present when he called him the Son of perdition, Joh. 17.11. They had heard Christ to say of him, good had it been if he had never been born. An expression able to scare the deadest heart. They saw he had left Christ the evening before. And that very day in which they fled, he hanged himself. And yet they fly. For all this they forsake Christ.